House of Curiosity...

I am in love with Spain! I was explaining to someone the first smell that hits you when you arrive to spain is the smell of wet earth followed by the smells of chimneys… it has been training here.
I must warn you guys that i am writing this with the most difficulty. To start with, [...]

Today, I celebrate six years of blogging. Since this blogging has been a life changing experience for me, I felt it is worth writing about.  I can’t remember the exact details of how I stumbled upon blogging… but I know that I was the seventh blogger in Jordan.  
The story goes like this:
When i started blogging I was [...]

January: GazaJanuary was tough, yet it was inspiring. I spent the whole month in the streets demonstrating for Gaza, I spent the evenings in a warehouse, packing, sorting and organizing….There was a sense of freedom in being part of all the mess. In the heart of the chaos, in the middle of the angry chants, [...]

People… people… and more people.
The hospital is full of people who have come to visit teta.  The first thing you see when you walk in the long corridor is that people have poured into the corridor out of the room.  It is almost surreal!
I always thought that we are a small family, I often joked [...]

My grandmother had a stroke on Friday morning.  My sister woke up early, and saw that there was something wrong. When she came closer, she realized that my grandmother was unconscious. We rushed her to the hospital. She has become paralyzed on the left side.
 On Thursday night, she was perfectly ok, and in a split [...]

During Gaza’s darkest moments, I discovered I have two cousins living there.  Discovering them unveiled a hidden part of my family’s history. I won’t be able to tell the story of how we lost each other, as this story is not mine to tell. I wish I could talk about our reunion story, which was [...]

I went hiking to a beautiful place called Wadi Mukhereis near the dead sea… and although it is not the first time I have been there, I still felt fascinated by the savage beauty that is hidden inside the mountains; A perfect eco system of waterfalls, rocks, insects and plants… all living in peace and [...]

I am in a part of the world, I have never been in before… Armenia!
I am on a project here, and the temptation to discover  this side of the world was simply too big for me to refuse.  The weather is great here, even though I thought it would be -9 according to Google weather…. [...]